by Martha Linsley Spencer<\/p>\n
I held within my hands today
\nThe book
\nin which she wrote her name \u2014
\n“Prudence Corwin’s book.”
\n(it read)
\n“Seventeen hundred and seventy-nine.”
\nthe letters
\nClear and plain as she had written them,
\nSo long ago \u2014
\nUpon the title page
\n(it said)
\n“Paradise Lost, a poem \u2014 the author,
\nJohn Milton.”<\/p>\n
My great Grandmother read this book \u2014
\nSo long ago \u2014 So long ago.<\/p>\n
(Northford 1930.)<\/p>\n
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